ballistic tips have gotten a bum rap for a lot of years, todays ballistic tips are a far cry from the BT's of old.
When introduced, they were a thin jacketed varmint type bullet, and they were tender, would violently expand when impacting heavy bone. after a bunch of complaints, nosler worked on a fix.
the heavier weights of ballistic tips in most calibers were changed to the exact makeup of the nosler solid base boat tail with a polymer tip instead of lead, and to know which was for what use, the medium game bullets are now packaged 50 to the box, those that were unchanged are packaged 100 or 250 to the box. today I shoot them in mainly a 25 wssm (115 gr at 3000 fps) a 250 savage ( 100 gr at 2750 fps) 6mmppc (55 gr at 3100 fps) 7MM STW (140 gr at 3550 fps) I have never saw better bullet performance on whitetails than the 115 gr BT at 3000 fps, have never recovered one out of around 15-20 deer shot with that load, even the 140's at 3550 will exit as long as I stay off the shoulder till the range is beyond 100 yards. I also have a lot of faith in the 55 gr in the 6mm PPC to crop does on damage permits. they get my vote, for a polymer tipped hollow point so to speak.
My 2 cents worth of experience of shooting them since their introduction.
RR